A Survey of Available Literature on Rural Women and Women’s Work in Agriculture

Literature review is an essential part for research. Before starting research on a meticulous topic, one needs to map the types of available writings on the topic of research. Literature review helps in choosing a topic for research which has not been studied yet or less studied. It also tells the importance of research topic. This study assembles all the major categories of research on rural women and their work in agriculture.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v1i2.10284 Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-1, issue-2: 69-73

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Mac at war: Women’s work and education at the Macdonald Institute during the First and Second World Wars

SURG Journal ◽

10.21083/surg.v9i1.3818 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 40-47

Author(s):

Tasha Falconer

Keyword(s):

Rural Women ◽

Women's Work ◽

Second World War ◽

Home Economics ◽

World War ◽

Women’S Work ◽

The First World War ◽

War Effort ◽

Second World ◽

First World

In 1903, the Macdonald Institute opened in Guelph with the stated aim of training rural women in home economics and domestic science. Part of the Ontario Agriculture College (OAC), the school progressed quickly and soon became an invaluable resource for both Canadian and international women. Over the years, the “Mac girls” made their mark on the world, including during the two World Wars. Under the leadership of directors Mary Watson during the First World War, and Olive Cruikshank during part of the Second World War, the Macdonald Institute supported the war effort in several ways. These included adapting curricula to the exigencies of wartime, and sending material overseas. The Macdonald Institute initially remained open during the Second World War, yet in 1941, standard classes ceased for five years as the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) No. 4 Wireless School took control of the Institute’s buildings and property. Throughout this period of closure, women arrived to live and attend classes at the Wireless School as part of the RCAF’s Women’s Division and School of Cookery. Throughout the two World Wars, women associated with the Macdonald Institute and the No. 4 Wireless School, including students, graduates, instructors, and members of the Women’s Division, variously involved themselves with the war effort. The activities of the Macdonald Institute, and of the No. 4 Wireless School, afford an opportunity to examine how women’s work and education was viewed, deployed, and reallocated throughout the two World Wars.

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Women Workers in Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review

IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) ◽

10.21013/jmss.v6.n1.p4 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 24

Author(s):

Neela Multani ◽

A. N. Sanghvi

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Literature Review ◽

Gender Discrimination ◽

Rural Women ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Well Being ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Research Literature ◽

National Accounts

<div><p><em>For any research, literature review is an essential part as it helps in identifying the area of research. Agriculture is the main source of sustenance for both developing and under developed countries. In countries like India, women’s position is not as strong as men both economically and socially and she faces more constraints than men. They cannot relocate easily. Women in rural areas have to manage multiple activities like maintaining home, making food, arranging water etc. and they are working in farms also. So, they are living hard life. All the activities performed by rural women is essential for the well-being of the rural households, still they are not defined as ‘economically active employment’ in national accounts. In India, 24 percent to total workers work as female cultivators and 41.1 percent to total workers work as female agricultural labourers. Past studies also relieved that because of less education, unawareness about the laws, poverty and gender discrimination, women workers face many problems. Also, few studies show that in some parts of the nation women workers are being paid less than the male workers. This Paper reviews past research studies to highlight the role and position of women workers in agricultural sector. </em></p></div>

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The behavioral health needs of rural women: A report in preparation by the Rural Women's Work Group and the Committee on Rural Health, American Psychological Association

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e552882012-002 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Pamela Mulder

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Health ◽

Rural Health ◽

Rural Women ◽

Work Group ◽

American Psychological Association ◽

Women's Work ◽

Health Needs ◽

American Psychological ◽

Women’S Work

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The Politics of Walking: Rural Women Encounters with Space and Memoir

The Unfamiliar ◽

10.2218/unfamiliar.v5i1-2.1362 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (1-2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rebeca Ibañez Martin

Keyword(s):

Rural Women ◽

Women's Work ◽

Rural Environment ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Space And Time ◽

Socioeconomic Changes ◽

Rural Context ◽

Subjective Space ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

A group of elderly and retired women from a northern village in Spain (they call themselves las chicas, the girls), try gather every week to take a walk together. Assembling my ethnographic notes, I describe the walk and offer an analytical foray into the following questions: What can we learn about the rural and the relationship of these women with the rural? What is the specificity of walking here? Walking is a practice that has in this case a twofold capacity: walking creates a mobile space for visibility in in which rural women’s work is considered private, and thus, walking provides a precious inter-subjective space for relationality; and second, the walk enacts a particular archaeology of memoir. The landscape bears witness to the socioeconomic changes of the rural environment. Such memoirs are actualized in the walk. Finally, as las chicas walk, not only do they travel across space and time, their movement allows for a particular methodological engagement of the researcher with the methods of research. Mobilities often question what hinders mobilities. But here my question is, what is the walking telling us about both the rural and these women in the rural context?

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Long-term Growth–Employment Relationship in India

Journal of Asian Development Research ◽

10.1177/2633190x20976499 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 2633190X2097649

Author(s):

Arup Mitra

Keyword(s):

Rural Women ◽

Labour Force ◽

Women's Work ◽

Work Participation ◽

Employment Relationship ◽

Strong Impact ◽

Labour Force Participation Rate ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Physical Infrastructure

This article focuses on the growth–employment relationship and the determinants of labour force participation rate. In the time-series framework, employment is seen to have a greater impact on GDP rather than vice versa. This is quite consistent with the literature that employment contracts can be long term in nature, and they are usually not flexible in the short run. Hence, fluctuations in the commodity market do not affect employment immediately. The effect of employment on growth through the demand linkage is usually overlooked, which is brought out by this study, suggesting that demand deceleration caused by sluggish expansion in jobs can make economic growth unsustainable in the long run. From supply side of labour, poverty-induced participation in the job market is evident, and women are seen to be largely engaged in the agricultural sector. The effect of physical infrastructure on women’s work participation is positive. Large household size and child to women ratio affect women’s work participation adversely. On the whole, the positive effect of health and education and a strong impact of physical infrastructure on labour market participation of rural women are evident.

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